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<blockquote data-quote="§am" data-source="post: 105032" data-attributes="member: 9187">Work out how much space a few hundred pictures take up in space, multiply that by 12 months, and then double that number again - that's the smallest size drive you should buy (as you want the drive to last at least a couple of years).Now double the price/budget, and get two drives for backup purposes, and keep them in seperate rooms or even one in a fire proof safe.Seagate, Western Digital both do external drives and to be honest, whether you get a good one or not seems to be varied from one person to the next.&nbsp; I've had mixtures of drives from most of the big manufacturers and some fail, some have lasted years, and some from the same size and batch have had failures and success!!With regards to backup software to external drives (or even internal drives or network drives), there's no need to buy any expensive software what so ever.There's an absolutely amazing free bit of MS software that will do backups with a whole array of options.... Robocopy.If anyone wants or needs help using it, let me know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="§am, post: 105032, member: 9187"] Work out how much space a few hundred pictures take up in space, multiply that by 12 months, and then double that number again - that's the smallest size drive you should buy (as you want the drive to last at least a couple of years). Now double the price/budget, and get two drives for backup purposes, and keep them in seperate rooms or even one in a fire proof safe. Seagate, Western Digital both do external drives and to be honest, whether you get a good one or not seems to be varied from one person to the next. I've had mixtures of drives from most of the big manufacturers and some fail, some have lasted years, and some from the same size and batch have had failures and success!! With regards to backup software to external drives (or even internal drives or network drives), there's no need to buy any expensive software what so ever. There's an absolutely amazing free bit of MS software that will do backups with a whole array of options.... Robocopy. If anyone wants or needs help using it, let me know. [/QUOTE]

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